West Baltimore neighborhoods

Toxicity has its grip on yet another online app.

With funding dwindling and classes on the chopping block, LaWanda Wilson did something rare and remarkable this fall.

As 2023 winds down, The Banner’s photo staff culled through the thousands of pictures we filed this year to highlight some of the most memorable frames, stories and projects from across Baltimore and the surrounding region.

The gun was found by another employee in a school bathroom.

A new report found that Maryland could see costs savings if lawmakers provided money upfront to prevent the displacement of those most at risk.

“I think of what she could have done with her life,” said Joyce Malecki’s brother, Darryl, as he discussed the FBI exhuming her body Thursday. He hopes there will soon be a break in the 1969 killing, which was investigated in the Netflix series, “The Keepers.”

The FBI announced Thursday that it had completed the exhumation of Joyce Malecki from Loudon Park Cemetery. The Netflix documentary “The Keepers” explored whether Malecki’s murder was connected to the killing of Sister Cathy Cesnik in the early 1970s.

For as long as I’ve been an adult, I’ve been petrified of costumed characters, including Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, mascots and Mickey Mouse and all his friends at Disneyland.

For 20 years, Kevin Brown, who went by “Buster” or “Bustah,” made Fells Point a little warmer, safer and cleaner. He died late last month at 65.

Funds were awarded to the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and the Gwynns Falls Business and Homeowners Association for their environmentally friendly, community-based projects.

As the former school of Justice Thurgood Marshall gets transformed, plans are announced to renovate the home of the late Baltimore congressman Parren Mitchell.

At its latest round of open houses, the Maryland Transit Administration provided numbers from new data modeling for residents to consider

The passenger rail company needs to financially compensate 532 property owners to be able to dig a new passenger rail tunnel underneath their homes. The project could cost as much as $6 billion to complete.

Four Baltimore police officers fired 36 shots at a man with a gun fleeing from them in the western part of the city earlier this month, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Friday.

Ultimately, Hardy said the aim is to let kids be kids, however that manifests for each of them. It’s a luxury he wasn’t afforded.

Alternative 1, a light rail tunnel option that most closely resembles an alignment that was canceled by former Gov. Larry Hogan in 2015, wins out on projected travel time and overall ridership, as well as trips from zero-car households.

Could a baby kangaroo be living undetected in the alleys of Baltimore? Did someone’s exotic pet hop away? In this strange, surprising city, anything was possible.

Uplands Community Association president said he had worried about people loitering at the vacant property.

For nearly a year, the building’s been vacant.

Why some memories are best served on each side of the net.